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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. N. DEWEY, OF BERLIN HEIGHTS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO B. L. HILL 8: 00., OF SAME PLACE.

QUILTING-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,621, dated November 10, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. N. DEWEY, of Berlin, in the county of Erie and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Quilt-Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is an end View of the quilt frames, and Fig. 2, a perspective view of the same.

Like letters refer to like parts in the different views.

A A represent two standards, which support the arms and bars to which the quilt is to be attached. B, B, two arms, which are mortised through the center, so that the standards A, A, can pass through them. C, C, two bars which slip into the spring aws Z), in each end of the arms B.

To the arms B, and the bars C, listing, or, other suitable substance is tacked, as seen at c, Fig. 2, and one side or end of the quilt, is then sewed to one of the bars C, and the other side or end, to the other bar C. The surplus length or width of the quilt, that is, so much ofthe width or length of it, as exceeds the width or distance between the bars C, is then rolled up on one of the bars C, so as properly to stretch the unrolled part of the quilt. The spring jaws b, are then screwed down upon the bars, by the screws D, so as to hold the bars firmly in place. The sides or ends of the quilt that lie against the arms B, may then be pinned or sewed to the listing upon those bars or arms. The quilt is then ready to be quilted.

The quilting is commenced on the side opposite to that on which the quilt is rolled up, and as it proceeds, and it is necessary to roll the quilt, the screws D, are loosened, so

that the bars C, will turn, the pins along the arms B, removed, and that part of the quilt which is quilted is rolled up, a corresponding part of the quilt, being at the same time unrolled, from the opposite bar; the same is done every time it is required to roll, until the quilt is all unrolled from the bar on which it is at first rolled.

The height of the bars C, and arms B, upon the standards A may be adjusted to suit the height of the persons quilting, by removing the keys E, E, and raising or lowering the arms B, so that the pins F, F, will slip into one of the higher or lower notches or grooves a, thus, the position of the arms and consequently of the quilt, can be changed to any point, from B, to H, the red line in Fig. l: the keys E, E, being then replaced, the arms will be retained at that point.

The standards A, may be brought closer together, or moved farther apart, so as to suit the width of the quilt, or other article that is being quilted, by loosening the screws D, and bringing the standards nearer together, by slipping the arms B, along on the bars O, or, in the same way extending them farther apart, and then tightening the screws D. If considered expedient, a crank may be attached to one end of the bar C, upon which the quilt is rolled, in order the more easily to roll or unroll the quilt.

I do not claim an adjustable quilting frame as such, but

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

The vertically adjustable arms B, B, having spring jaws for adjusting the bars O, C,

as set forth.

H. N. DEWEY. WVitnesses D. C. JoHNsoN, J OB FISH. 

